Moscow, Russia - Fog Cinema is one of the few buildings in Moscow that survived various political regimes and time, but is currently falling into disrepair. To keep visually striking form of the theater intact, the proposal is an experiment in the creation of natural effect through the emplyment of the theater's facade that acts as an atmospheric machine.

 

Concept

 

Fog Cinema proposes a façade for Pushkinsky Cinema that will be veiled by a mystical fogwall, contained by a geometrical glass panels that dynamically change its face throughout day and night. A sensation that is never provided in any cinema house will further stimulate the imagination of Muscovites and visitors of Pushkinskaya Square.

 

Process

 

The new façade implements a double skin glass wall with two types of hexagrid patterned glass system on the outer skin: operable flat glass and concave glass. The solid side façade will be restored and coated with DuPont™ products and implemented with second layer of hexagrid glass.

 

The new facade will feature the ever-changing visual transformations created by the fog system and the natural/artificial lighting conditions. The fog will be created within the double-skin facade with the help of spray nozzles installed throughout the fogwall. Water sources are collected via off-site and from rain water and snow on rooftop. This water will be fed through the underground water collection tank, where it will be purified and fed through the spray nozzles to create fog. The high pressure water fed throughout the fog system will transform a clear double-skin facade into a mystical sensation that temporary conceals Pushkinsky Cinema.

 

Sprayed out water will be collected at the base of the fogwall, and will be fed back to the water purifying tank. The operable concave glass panels serve as rain and snow collectors, and after collecting certain amount of water they diagonally slide and rotate to feed the collected water within the skin to the base gutter. Some portion of the water, together with purified waste water from the building will be used for irrigating the plants of Pushkinskaya Square.

 

The operable flat panels will open and allow fresh air inside the double skin facade to dry the glass after the fog performance is over.